Unions Fight Arbitration Court and Lockout in Australia
The piece recounts the Council of Action forming in October to oppose hours and wages cuts, led by iron trades unions. It describes court decisions, lockouts at Sydney Steel, fines of 300 and 100, and calls for deregistration and civil disobedience to overturn the arbitration ruling, with the Communist Party backing unity and a broader worker campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Council of Action
Iron Trades
Unio
Sydney Steel Coy
Iron Trade
Communist Party
Heat and hard labor slow ballast pit work in Inglewood
A.W.A. representative F. J. Harrington reports that heat makes the crew spend extra time on the ballast pit near Inglewood. December 8 was worst with limited noon relief and shelter under wagons. Rain at the brook head and rising pit water keep men at the bottom face, shovels poor. The ganger aids the men. The gang urges winter operation. Arbitration for such tasks is proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Harrington
Inglewood
Australian famine relief envoy in Russia criticizes West
Melbourne representative Be T Asche, of the Australian Famine Belief Fund, recounts two months in famine zones of Buzuluk and Samara and three months in Moscow. He defended Russia’s state capitalism, praised governance, and said he will continue relief propaganda in Australia while denying Bolshevik repression and urging support for famine relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. T. Asche
Melbourne
Australian Famine Belief Fund
Russia
Salln
Jervin Hoy
Australian Press Association
Asche
Buzuluk
Samara
Moscow
Mr. Asche
Australia
Europe
Lenin
Dictatorship of the Politician in Labor circles outlined
A circulated circular by Charlton Gar diner and Dooley urges reform to seize control of the Labor movement. It condemns selection ballots as corrupt and calls for a state executive elected from federal electorates, a veto on newspaper ballots, rolling signing ahead of ballots, and curbs on MPs serving on the executive as conferences loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australian Labor Party
Messrs
Charlton and Gardiner
Dooley
A.S.P
Charlton
Metropolitan
Newcastle
Soviet Russia Drops Concessions at Pan-Russian Congress
Comrade Kameneff voiced at Moscow the opening of the Tenth Pan-Russian Soviet Congress that Soviet Russia will make no more concessions to foreign powers and withdraw those urged at Genoa and The Hague conferences. The report suggests recovery from famine and civil war, with a plea that sovereignty be safeguarded by growth of the global revolutionary movement and increased pressure on capitalist governments.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Heraid
Russia
Labor
Kameneff
Lenin
Moscow
Genoa
The
Hague
Soviet
Soviet Russia
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Ron Trades Unions
London
Australian Law Department
Asehe
A.L.P
Labour
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